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Best hotel picks for New York City. Use this as a starting point to quickly choose the best hotel for your next trip to New York City.Peninsula New YorkGreat for business travelers as well as families with children (it has a pool). Many of the luxurious rooms in this 1905 Art Nouveau building overlook Fifth Avenue. Nightly rates from $400.

In the past decade, India has gone from a place that relatively few Americans visited to one of the top international destinations for U.S. residents — ahead of other locales like Brazil, Switzerland and Greece.

But some travelers are now canceling plans to visit because of safety concerns following the Mumbai attacks.

I’ve just completed a real-world move from London to New York, and so I’m moving my office hours from 0800 PST to 1100 PST on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. That’s 7 pm in London, 2 pm in New York, 11 am on the West Coast. Stop by and see me!

A new study from the Earth Institute at Columbia University says there’s more seismic activity around the Big Apple than previously thought. Researchers also say they discovered a new active fault line running from Stamford, Connecticut 25 miles (40.2 kilometers) west toward the Hudson River. There, this underground fault intersects with another fault line.Sitting on top of that intersection is the Indian Point nuclear power plant.Scary stuff perhaps? Maybe – but big earthquakes still remain geologically unlikely around New York City.

The thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion to some.
Computer-guided electric podcars like these carry small groups of people on their own networks.

Computer-guided electric podcars like these carry small groups of people on their own networks.

To Jacob Roberts, podcars -- or PRTs, for personal rapid transit -- represent an important component in the here-and-now of transportation.